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dog: started throwing up..came home..food, as well as antibiotics…

Two Wednesdays ago my dog...

Two Wednesdays ago my dog started throwing up. He spent the night in the vet and was diagnosed with gastroenteritis. He came home the next day and was put on Purina’s EN food, as well as antibiotics until last Sunday. I took him back to the vet Monday and they said he was fine. The canned food ran out on Tuesday and I put him on Purina Sensitive Systems, the dry kind, and ordered the canned kind from my vet. On Friday night I put him on the Purina Sensitive Systems and Skin canned food. Saturday he began having diarrhea. He had it three times and was done. I decided I’d messed with his food too much and wanted to put him back on the food he ate before any of this happened. Saturday night I gave him Beneful Original. He ate as much as his shrunken stomach could handle. This afternoon he began to have blood in his stool. His first stool was solid with a little blood. His next seemed to be more blood than feces. What is going on?

Experience: 15 years as a companion animal veterinarian; BVMS and MRCVS.

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It sounds as if there is a lot of inflammation present, if blood is now being passed. If it is fresh blood, then this often indicates that the colon (large intestine) is very inflamed, as when this occurs fresh blood is shed directly into the gut lumen, which then passes out of the anus unchanged as bright red blood (as opposed to digested blood if bleeding is further up the intestinal tract).

If this is the case then as bland a diet as possible is the best solution, i usually recommend scrambled egg and boiled rice, but prescription intestinal diet is also fine to feed in these cases.

In addition it would be worth giving some 'Pepcid' (Famotidine) to reduce acidity in the stomach and small intestine, the dose is 0.25-0.5mg/lb every 12-24hrs. This will help if any inflammation is present in the stomach or small intestine.

If he is ill in himself( won't eat) or the blood continues, then do go back and see your vet, as different medications may be required.

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